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In Which Our Protagonist
Writes a 2^nd Blog To Convince
Himself of His Noble Intention
To Continue Writing

Spent way too much time fussing with the formatting of that opening. Plus discovered an annoying (bug|feature|nuisance) in Habari — whenever I clicked the “Save now” button in the editor, I was saving multiple drafts (and even a published version or two ??) of my post. Weird. Need to check that out, but no more distractions for now.

I have to admit, I can never see the word “Protagonist” without thinking of the Deliverator himself, Hiro Protagonist. I think perhaps it is time to re-read Snow Crash.

So, I mentioned “New House” in the last post. That’s been fun, and a pain - all at once. I never was one for staying on task or organized, so there are about a half a dozen projects I should be working on right now.

• Finish tearing out cruddy old shower upstairs (~50% done)
• Install plumbing from upstairs bathroom to new laundry closet
• Finish laundry closet (~50% done)
• Finish installing new weatherstripping on doors (~25% done)
• Finish plastic wrapping windows for the winter (… 6% done. Yep, I whipped out the calculator for that one)
• Finish sealing up the basement door

As you can see, way too many start with “Finish.” Got a bad habit of half-doing things. Guess this is home ownership.

Hmmm. New server, new blogging software. Actually, new house too, since the last time I maintained this domain.

Linodes

Awesome VPS. Wish I’d found them years ago when I first started running a VPS for myself and my gaming clan. Fast, affordable, awesome support and a cool community. Can’t recommend them enough. Unfortunately, none of my friends are into running a site, so .. eh. Suffice it to say, I’ve got the badass host now and everyone I know is sick of hearing about my cool new server.

Habari

Not sure yet. Looked awesome. Then I tried to get some plugins, and all the links were dead. Half the developers seemed to have swapped back to WP. Dunno. Hit Google and looked for another blog program awhile, but nothing caught my eye. Not doing WP right now, though. Going to keep this site a bit experimental.

Edit .. Found the plugins, with Google. Two different plugin directories on their site and neither was any good. Google found a third that I missed somehow. I’m happier now, Habari is good so far.

Markdown

Interesting thing. Markdown is one of the plugins I was really looking forward too, and I’m glad I found it. It’s a neat little markup language to lets you format blog text using some simple inline markings. Pretty handy, more plain-English than > HTML markup.